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During the 1962 race battles on the University of Mississippi campus, an Associated Press cub reporter wrote a dispatch that charged former Major General Edwin A. Walker with encouraging the riots. Segregationist Walker sued the A.P., won a $500,000 verdict from a Fort Worth jury. Last week, in Shreveport, La., Walker won again. He had sued the A.P. and the New Orleans Times-Picayune for $2,225,000; the jury awarded...
...summer vacations he worked for Publisher Millard Cope's Marshall News Messenger as a $25-a-week reporter. With his first byline, he dropped the y from his given name, Billy, has never taken it back. Not all of the paper's hands found the scholarly-looking cub a welcome addition. "Just what we needed," grumbled one. "A part-time college boy with neither whisky nor whiskers-one you can't even cuss in front...
...made it go was Billingsley's basic formula: exclusiveness and effusiveness. He became a kind of unacknowledged dictator of café society, and the mass of its members, basically insecure, welcomed the leadership and authority. For they knew that if they were admitted into the upper sanctuary, the Cub Room, they were established...
...jotted it down in a hasty sketch and later recalled it the tranquillity of his studio. But there they are, for all time, transfixed on a roseate, smoky day: the fur trader puffing his pipe, his half-breed son derisively peering at the artist, and the huddled bear cub chained to the bow of the dugout. The river is the Missouri; the year is 1845, and the painter, who by his art has enshrined a timeless moment by on the frontier, is George Caleb Bingham (see opposite page). It is also American landscape drawing at its best accurate, knowledgeable, architectural...
...West Pointer ('36), Clifton took leave shortly after graduation, worked as a cub reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. He decided to become a career newsman, was on his way to Army headquarters in New York with his resignation when he saw a military parade on Fifth Avenue led by an old West Point friend. Clifton tore up the resignation, stayed in the Army for 29 more years. In Italy, during World War II, Artilleryman Clifton's huge 240-mm. howitzers plastered Cassino with 250,000 shells in 120 days, and Clifton won the Legion of Merit...